Dezzo

I usually run

Victorias

Von Schill

Student of Conflict

Ronin

Ronin

8 SS Cache

It is a relatively versatile crew that can do most of the strategies. Schemes wise I usually take Assassinate and First Blood.

Yes, you get out activated but this crew is so fast and hits hard enough you can do surgical strikes and then pull out to regroup.

Little things like drawing a card after one of the Viks killed a model and doing the Companion chain with Viks + SoC ensures you the ability to hit models that seem out of reach or are trying to make a break for it.

I am looking forward to test the crew with 1 less Ronin for Vanessa but I will have less SS and 2 Ronins is a possible 4 extra SS upon Seppeku if I ran out of SS and need the extra SS to finish off certain models/masters which happened more than once.

Pro tip: Ronins usually end up protecting my back line or guard against a Stake a Claim objective.

i won the wooden spoon *grin*

3 years ago, my orders from them reached me within 2 weeks and i live in asia.

nowadays because of the overwhelming volume of sales they handle, it can take up to 2 months for my order to reach me...

one of my longstanding issues with MSG is that their online website's stock volume do not coincide with their actual warehouse ones some of the time... so if a particular item is out of stock and also OOP or out of stock at the suppliers, it may take an email or two (and hope somebody receives the email and attends to it) to find out if i will ever get the stuff i ordered.

i continue to support MSG primarily because they are the very few UK based online stores that offer free shipping as well as regular sales. I can't use any of the US based online stores mainly because they charge ridiculous fees for shipping to asia.

i make it a point to not buy online if i am in a hurry... coz i can just pop down to my LGS and get what i need... well unless the LGS doesn't have what i want either... *zzz*

Been wondering about running this crew.

Raspy

Essence of Power

Von Shill

Snow Storm

Ice Gamin

7 SS

Very low model count but relatively quick / mobile with SStorm and Von Shill. I can even get Von Shill into close combat and zap the enemy with Raspy's D.Curse and opt Von Shill to ignore the blasts.

I will definitely be out activated on the first two turns... but I think after that I can be in control...

Thoughts? Suggestions?

i don't buy miniatures unless i can use them (or bent on using them).... so far all the masters bar one have Avatars that are meh.

Raspy

LJ

Perdita

Ramos

Victoria

Ramos' Avatar strikes me as something I should have... but I am having so much fun with LJ and Perdita... I have yet to get much practice in with Ramos... Infact... I have been tinkering with an idea for Raspy but that is for another thread.

Being in a position you are in before.... Get out of multi-player games. The game doesn't really support it and you end up not being able to really learn the game and get really good at it. Once I started playing 1v1 games everything made a lot more sense. Trust me, the game is so much more fun, quicker, and works within the bounds of the mechanics.

What he said.

Guild technically do not have a "filth" list but they do have the ability to field generalist crews that do well on most of the strategies.

My general crew is:

2 Austringers

3 Death Marshal

1 Desperate Merc / Watcher

1 Suitable Totem (Student of Conflict or Enslaved Nephilim)

Thing is I run Lady Justice or Perdita, so this crew suits either of them fine. Hoffman and Lucius' crews are much different.

Vickys need Student of Conflict.

6 small and 2 large as a "base" crew.

stuff like totems and support crew (soul stone miner for example) do make themselves into my crew from time to time.

doh! :slap:

remove:

ice golem

ice gamin

add:

desperate merc

desperate merc

essence of power

and have 8 SS

Rasputina functions well only when she has more than 6 SS.

but this list takes some time to learn but its a good generalist list to play for most strategies.

he is one of the best masters in the arcanist faction

he is extremely average when compared to the rest of the masters across all factions

in malifaux, you can't judge a master based on the master themselves, the collective is what crew you can bring with them.

eg. Rasputina is actually quite powerful if observed by herself... but her choice of minions results her in rather being crappy compared to what other masters can bring.

Marcus and Ramos beats Rasputina simply by having better minions/crew to accompany them.

you don't even need that many colours...

my palette only has ard 10.

A few months ago I played my first real games of Malifaux, many of them with Kaeris. While she's fairly straightforward for a newbie to play, let me warn you: you WILL feel underpowered with her. You'll feel like everything else is broken, and you will get frustrated by that feeling. It will make the victories sweeter, but fewer. I'm not saying you made the wrong choice; but I know that, as a newbie, it sometimes made it hard to want to play the next game and I was always wishing I'd invested elsewhere ...

actually this applies for most of the arcanist faction.

fantastic stuff!

i guess the reason why the range is that long is because it targets only 1 model and you can target 1 more for every ram (and only within 3" from the first target). and you need LOS.

its not as devastating as LJ's Last Rites.

u made colette and his crew so alive!

great job!

if you are an old hat at painting miniatures, gw paints are just meh.

if you are new to painting miniatures, its like the best thing since sliced bread.

guess which demographic gw is trying to reach out to?

all i remember about Hamelin is falling asleep on the table when one of my friends was playing him.

mind you... i was just spectating the game. but i might fall asleep too if i was the opponent.

BORING.

Frankly, I'm a little worried Wyrd will go this way, because, while there are fewer things to buy, they tend to be much more complex.

miniature making companies have to eventually follow one of the few business models...

1. stay small. have very little overheads, limited releases every year.

2. expand. eventually incurring larger overheads, more releases every year.

but ALL miniature gaming systems/company EVENTUALLY give in to one problem:

their system has so many miniatures and people own so many of the miniatures they need to find a way to "use" them. and there is a problem with if the system is able to support a game with so vast a collection of miniatures.

that is when you get things like WHFB (Storm of Magic) and 40k Apoc.

12 hour games? no thanks.

armies with a minimum of 100 models? no thanks.

minimum cost start up at over $400? no thanks.

i think you guys know where i am going with this...

atm, i am just enjoying my stay with Malifaux while it is still the way it is... when it comes to TTMG the permutations of the business models are only so few... so once you see certain things happening, you can quickly make your choice to keep on supporting the system in quesiton... or just move on.

i never use Ortega's companion ability.

austringer's Deliver Orders ability however, is a different story altogether. =P

Run an all beast crew. all the best Marcus crews do that.

3 night terrors are also a staple.

2 Waldgeists and 2 - 3 Silurids are also staple choices.

Jackalope is a popular choice also.

The Dreamer makes us hate children even more.

i use only vallejo game colours because of the dropper bottle and the availability of that range of colours locally.

i also use the vallejo glaze medium extensively but am moving to replace that with artist grade medium / extenders because those are easier to find. (the vallejo glaze medium that is in the large bottle is very difficult to find and expensive)

super heavies for a "skirmish sized" game.

hahahaha?